The difficulties of managing information networks is explored from the perspective of today's and tomorrow's typical enterprise, whether small and large businesses, government agencies, universities, or other organizations, and eventually even residential customers. A historical review of communication network management is given, beginning with the telephone network and moving on to computer and ...
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The development of a network management strategy and a network control system for the large integrated telecommunications network (ITN) at American Express Travel Related Services Company is discussed. Network control relates to operational activities such as the diagnostics, configuration, monitoring, and performance of networks, and network management relates to all of the functions performed to...
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The author considers system crashes, focusing on the need for better methods of detecting faults. He identifies the issues that must be addressed. These include the need to filter data and produce user-oriented reports, and the role of network management.<>
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Experience in providing network management for the 1986 Pan American (Pan Am) Games in Indianapolis USA are described. The situation called for an integrated solution that could manage the 5000 voice, data, and video circuits residing within several different networks providing communications for 6500 data terminals and 143 computers spanning 40 locations. The scope of network management is examin...
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The current status of Japanese business communications and private network management is discussed, covering requirements, functions, and standardization of network management. The gap between user needs and technology as well as the issue of introduction and operating costs of management systems are examined. Technological elements that are essential to customer control of management functions ar...
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The Unified Network Management Architecture (UNMA), developed by AT&T to provide a base for network management in a multilevel environment, is discussed. The functions of data management addressed by UNMA are delineated. These comprise five functional areas recognized by the standards groups working in network management, namely configuration, faults, performance, accounting, and security, as well...
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The management of hybrid corporate networks comprising a wide variety of equipment and services offered by different vendors and service providers is addressed. The public carrier environment in which such networks must operate is described. Five categories of system management functional areas set forth in the ISO/IEC Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) standards are defined. They are fault manage...
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The management functions requested by customers, namely problem management, change management, configuration management, performance management, accounting management, and operational control of the network, are discussed, emphasizing the need for a solution that provides a seamless view of voice, data, and bandwidth management networks. IBM's approach to meeting these needs is described. It is a ...
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The state of the art in the various segments of the customer control network management business is surveyed, and projections of the future of each of these segments are presented. Among the anticipated developments discussed are the use of expert-system-based technologies to automate the alarm correlation function, convergence on five principal data network standards, the use of automated tools t...
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